True Facts: Is The Goffin's Cockatoo The Smartest Bird?

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The Goffin Labs, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Prof. Alice Auersperg
Dr. Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró
Dr. Mark O’Hara
Berenika Mioduszewska
Dr. Isabelle Laumer
Keene & Kirkland, UW Medicine
Bene Croy

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Auersperg AM, Borasinski S, Laumer I, Kacelnik A. Goffin's cockatoos make the same tool type from different materials. Biol Lett. 2016 Nov;12(11):20160689. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0689.

Auersperg, A. M. I., Szabo, B., von Bayern, A. M. P., & Bugnyar, T. (2013, July 22). Object Permanence in the Goffin Cockatoo (Cacatua goffini). Journal of Comparative Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0033272

Auersperg AM, Kacelnik A, von Bayern AM. Explorative learning and functional inferences on a five-step means-means-end problem in Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatuagoffini). PLoS One. 2013 Jul 3;8(7):e68979. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068979.

Beinhauer, I. & Bugnyar, Thomas & Auersperg, Alice. (2018). Prospective but not retrospective tool selection in the Goffin’s cockatoo (Cacatua goffiniana). Behaviour. 156. 10.1163/1568539X-00003515.

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Laumer IB, Bugnyar T, Reber SA, Auersperg AMI. Can hook-bending be let off the hook? Bending/unbending of pliant tools by cockatoos. Proc Biol Sci. 2017 Sep 13;284(1862):20171026. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1026.

Laumer IB, Massen JJM, Boehm PM, Boehm A, Geisler A, Auersperg AMI. Individual Goffin´s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) show flexible targeted helping in a tool transfer task. PLoS One. 2021 Jun 29;16(6):e0253416. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253416. Erratum in: PLoS One. 2024 Dec 30;19(12):e0316744. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0316744.

Laumer, Isabelle & Massen, Jorg & Wakonig, Birgit & Lorck Tympner, Melina & Carminito, Chelsea & Auersperg, Alice. (2019). Tentative evidence for inequity aversion to unequal work‐effort but not to unequal reward distribution in Goffin's cockatoos. Ethology. 126. 10.1111/eth.12947.

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Mioduszewska, Berenika & Auersperg, Alice & O'Hara, Mark. (2022). Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 45. 10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101118.

O’Hara, Mark, Berenika Mioduszewska, Roger Mundry, Yohanna, Tri Haryoko, Rini Rachmatika, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Ludwig Huber, Alice M.I. Auersperg, Wild Goffin’s cockatoos flexibly manufacture and use tool sets, Current Biology, Volume 31, Issue 20, 2021, Pages 4512-4520.e6, ISSN 0960-9822, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.009.

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